My first vivid memory of painting, is when my grammar school art teacher told me I had an "unusual" imagination, so therefore I would be painting the classroom wall mural of what the inhabitants of mars looked like. It was like creating a world, and I have not stopped since. I cannot, "Not paint"….and, I am unable to stop creating art in some form. It is, to me, who you are, rather than what you choose to do. The majority of the work I produced in years past is either in private collections or in friends and families’ homes. There is a piece in a New York collectors’ home, and a piece in a restaurant called the Blind Tiger in Charleston, South Carolina, and a complete series collection in a Radio personalities’ home, in Southern California. But mostly my work is just an outlet of an obsessive creative necessity, and not really done for public consumption. Recently, family and friends have talked me out of remaining in my art closet.My first vivid memory of painting, is when my grammar school art teacher told me I had an "unusual" imagination, so therefore I would be painting the classroom wall mural of what the inhabitants of mars looked like. It was like creating a world, and I have not stopped since. I cannot, "Not paint"….and, I am unable to stop creating art in some form. It is, to me, who you are, rather than what you choose to do. The majority of the work I produced in years past is either in private collections or in friends and families’ homes. There is a piece in a New York collectors’ home, and a piece in a restaurant called the Blind Tiger in Charleston, South Carolina, and a complete series collection in a Radio personalities’ home, in Southern California. But mostly my work is just an outlet of an obsessive creative necessity, and not really done for public consumption. Recently, family and friends have talked me out of remaining in my art closet.
I spend lots of time photographing colors and shapes, then painting. The remaining free time is usually done researching mind disorders, twisted personalities, and disturbing "fringe-element-types" of people whenever I can. The mind fascinates me, the abnormal mind, even more so. My work, however, is not a reflection of my dark interests but rather an expression of joy. None of my work has expressed sadness to me. My paintings are the eruption of what colors and shapes and ideas must become a reality, at this moment, in this time…and I know before they arrive on the canvas exactly what they must look like…and usually they are abstracts. I have been asked by many "what is the art you are working on…what is it going to be?" So I save time by giving the same answer I have given for many years, "Lambs in a field". I have probably painted over one thousand canvases of "Lambs in a field" and they range in size generally, from 15" x 20", to 40" x 60", but most are larger now, and appear to be growing. Lambs are apparently hard to contain in small quarters. I worked in oils for many years, then acrylic, but I now buy lots of different paints and mix in a cornucopia of ingredients to create the exact textures and colors I am looking for. I’ve mixed sand, rust, oatmeal, vines and clay into paints to get what I’m looking for.